[WotC] Mission Overhaul: Mercury

This mod makes some dramatic changes to four missions: Protect the Device, Extract VIP, Neutralize Target, and Rescue VIP. See the features below for more information.

Mission Overhaul – Core is REQUIRED as this mod uses logic from the universal subsystems that are contained in that mod.

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• PROTECT THE DEVICE \
  • Mission is now wave defense.
  • Introducing a new feature to the mission: TurretFall Sitrep. If you built the Defense Matrix, you can skydrop a turret to a location. You only have two charges for the whole squad (4 if you bought the facility upgrade), so make them count!
  • You have 5 turns to prepare defenses against the onslaught of Alien and ADVENT reinforcements dropping in.
  • After 5 turns, you must defend the device for 5/7/8/9 turns [Rookie, Veteran, Commander, Legend, respectively] while more reinforcements drop in the vicinity of the device.
  • After the device is finished, you can either leave or sweep the area of hostiles to finish the mission.
  • The number of reinforcements drop is 2 on the next turn, and 1 more on the turn after. If the max number of units in the field is more than 5, then the reinforcements stop dropping.
• RESCUE VIP \
• EXTRACT VIP
• NEUTRALIZE TARGET
  • Timers are no longer hard-timers, meaning that if the clock hits 0, you don’t lose the mission!
  • At 0, infinite reinforcements will drop near the Evac zone and attempt to kill you or the VIP.
  • Occasionally there will be a lull in their reinforcements, allowing you to escape. Failure to escape will make even more reinforcements appear.

• None so far.

• Fix some bugs, if any.
• The Mission Overhaul packs.

• It should work right out of the box, regardless of your mod setup.

Q: I hate this part of mission where X. I demand you change it!

A: Sorry, but this mission stays. I’m not rewriting the entire mission since it takes forever to do.

Q: What is this mission overhaul that you mentioned?

A: Coming soon!

Q: Is it safe to add this mod in the middle of a campaign?

A: Yes! You can add it mid campaign with little to no issues. Do not however, enable it during a tactical mission, as that could cause unexpected bugs, not limited to a CTD!

Q: Vanilla version?

A: Not really, no.

• E3245 for editing the mission logic for the missions listed above in features.
• Iridar for implementing the Turret Drop ability + visualization.
• Numralan, of the Deployable Turrets mod, for inspiration for TurretFall.

Release ver: 1.016:

• Fixed a bug where the Counter Ops sitrep would appear on other missions.